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CVE-2008-0597
Use-after-free vulnerability in CUPS before 1.1.22, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service…
Medium5.0EPSS 2.3%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in CUPS before 1.1.22, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted IPP packets.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.3% · top 17% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (17)
- 29251 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 29189 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- SUSE-SA:2008:012 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- RHSA-2008:0153 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0091 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0091 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9492 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- MDVSA-2008:050 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- 27988 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20080229 rPSA-2008-0091-1 cups (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-084.htm (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 29087 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- cups-ippbrowse-useafterfree-dos(40845) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-098.htm (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2008:0161 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2283 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1019497 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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